Officials with the Nokia Sensing X Challenge have announced the second grand prize winner in their competition—DNA Medicine Institute (DMI) has won for its cutting edge medical testing device, the rHEALTH X. The team has received $525,000 in prize money and an enormous amount of publicity and prestige.
The Reusable Handheld Electrolyte and Lab Technology for Humans (rHEALTH) X is a portable handheld device that can currently conduct up to 22 lab tests (up to the FDA gold standard) from a single drop of blood. In accepting the award, representatives with DMI said that while winning the prize is great, their real objective is to bring modern medicine to the billions of people who currently have little access to medical care.
The lab tests done by the X run the gamut, from tox screening, to looking for signals in the blood that indicate diseases, to discovering the presence of viruses, such as flu or Ebola. To allow for testing with such a small device, the researchers developed new technology to test blood samples–it relies on nanotechnology and optics. The testing surface is seeded with many nano-sized test strips, each of which mix with and soak up material found in the blood. Each strip is then lined up and passed in front of a laser which is used to determine what material is in it. Findings are stored and displayed, allowing non-medically trained people to make their own diagnoses. The device also comes with a Bluetooth enabled patch to be applied to the skin which can provide respiration, heart rate etc. to a person on their smartphone.
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-dmi-nokia-handheld-medical-device.html
[More Info]: http://sensing.xprize.org/press-release/dmi-wins-nokia-sensing-xchallenge-sensor-runs-hundreds-of-lab-tests-single
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:05PM
Fucking hells yeah! HR are just jizzin themselves over this shit! Calibrate the bloodsucker just right, and you can hire NOTHING BUT NIGGERS totally legally, because it's not discrimination if you use a fucking smartphone to do it, bro! Never will HR ever have to hire another white cracker ass loser ever again!!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:14PM
Why would you need a test to confirm what you already know?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:13PM
Fortunately it is not transmitted over the internet.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:18PM
Systemd, a disease that's more harmful than Ebola, is transmitted over the Internet, however.
Ebola has never prevented my Debian system from booting properly. Systemd has, on several occasions.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:18PM
Are you hopped up on disobedience drugs? The test will incriminate you! Refusing the test is also a crime.
(Score: 1) by Gravis on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:40PM
cops will blood test everyone, just because
i'm not fan of the ever increasing US police state but the US police will not be using this on everyone they see. the reason is that (in the US) even pricking someone's finger/arm/whatever to get blood is considered a medical procedure and performing any type of medical procedure opens a giant can of legal and liability issues. basically, it's more trouble than it's worth for them to test anyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @11:47AM
That's just one law change/reinterpretation away from no longer being true.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday November 14 2014, @05:05PM
I wouldn't be so sure of that. In fact, I'd say it's provable false. There are already multiple [dailytech.com] examples [infowars.com] of police conducting blood tests on passing motorists at traffic checkpoints.
At the moment these *usually* require a search warrant. Which is why they have a judge at the checkpoint, to immediately issue a warrant for anyone who refuses to provide a blood sample voluntarily.
You're the first person I've seen who's ever raised the issue of legal liability for a medial procedure. Police don't consider it a medical procedure, they consider it a search and seizure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:23PM
Keep yer satanistic devices away from mah bloooood!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @12:28PM
Whelp, the device says your blood is made of lentil soup, and the device is never wrong. Can't sue me for malpractice, the medical device in my hand is practicing medicine, not me.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:00PM
5 comments so far and I think we can say with some certainty that AC is a stupid, paranoid, racist shitcavity.
I for one think this technology is potentially amazing. Just think of the revolution to healthcare when everyone can cheaply, easily and reliably identify health issues, and have solutions suggested to them with a handheld gadget.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:16PM
That's an improper generalization.
Oh wait, is? So you honestly think AC is a single person?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:25PM
He probably thinks that systemd is just an init system, too. Such are the ways of the delusional.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:32PM
Apparently, AC also lacks a sense of humour.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:23PM
I'm very relieved to see that you used your full real name when posting that comment, "GreatAuntAnesthesia". Otherwise we'd have been led to believe that you were using some sort of a pseudonym, and cowardly posting in an anonymous fashion.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:43PM
Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. I wasn't criticising anyone for posting anonymously. There's nothing wrong with posting AC. Anonymity is important. I never said otherwise.
I was criticising the empty-headed bigotry being posted, doesn't matter what pseudonym it's posted under, it's still shit. It's a sad day when the majority of posts are the kind of trollish bullshit that can be currently found in this thread. Glad you stepped up to defend the trolls' right to be assholes though, even though nobody was attacking it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @04:10PM
> 5 comments so far and I think we can say with some certainty that AC is a stupid, paranoid, racist shitcavity.
Anonymous trolls are trolls! News at 11!
(Score: 2) by redneckmother on Thursday November 13 2014, @04:49PM
I wonder if the "billions of people who currently have little access to medical care" have smartphones?
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 1) by SunTzuWarmaster on Friday November 14 2014, @12:09AM
Imagine a situation: there are no doctors in your town of 5000 people and no ability to run lab tests. Almost everyone is healthy. Everyone makes an average of $1/day. Everyone pitches in an average of $0.1. Everyone that need medical tests can now obtain them.